If Only
by Mary Etta Metcalf
dreams flow through my head of days past
when youth could do no wrong…life wadreams s good
the freedom felt…the acts performed…were they wrong
how different life would have been…if only i had known
actions perceived…ideas run rampant…mind speeding on
falling into the trap only life seemed to know about
continuing on as if nothing was wrong…nothing at all
how different life would have been…if only i had known
things omitted in childhood…youth in the dark
as life raced forward as a speeding train out of control
and i asked…is there no end…where is the light
how different life would have been…if only i had known
i tried to put the breaks on…it broke in my hands
i cried at the fear that rose within me
groping my way through life…crying…what is going on
how different life would have been…if only i had known
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Bridge-Guard in the Karroo by Rudyard Kipling
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- This Dog by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bird of Paradise by William Henry Davies
- Delinquency by Satish Verma
- Beautiful Balmerino by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Hermit At Outermost House by Sylvia Plath
- Fallen Majesty by William Butler Yeats
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
- Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите
- A Song In Passing by Yvor Winters
- Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu
- Sonnet CXXIII by William Shakespeare
- Джон Китс – Дуралейная песня
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